The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is one of seven technical offices within
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Originally known as the A ...
, an agency of the
U.S. Department of Defense
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that is responsible for the development of advanced technology for
national security
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.
In a 2021 news story, DARPA described it "a highly exploratory office that identifies and accelerates new technologies."
DARPA created DSO in 1980 by merging several projects that had separately been working on
materials science,
cybernetic technology, and nuclear monitoring.
DARPA later spun off two of DSO's areas into groups of their own: Microsystems Technology Office (1992) and the Biological Technologies Office (2014).
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DARPA offices